People everywhere try so hard to make the world better. Their intentions are admirable, yet they seek to change everything but themselves. To make yourself a better person is to make the world a better place.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

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Further quotes from the book In Love with the World:

• Fundamentally pure and good
• Short moments, many times
• Stretching a bit further
• Vast and intimate
• Anywhere, anytime
• The masks that hide our true selves
• Identifying the sickness for ourselves
• Nothing endures but change
• Only with recognition
• Ego-grasping death comes before life
• Spacious awareness
• Accepting whatever happens
• Beyond habitual patterns
• Awareness contains impermanence
• Facing suffering
• It’s how we relate to emotions
• The chattering voice in our heads
• The source of what we like or do not like
• Replace longing with love